Chapter Ninety-Three: Industry
Jiang Yu felt funny, and couldn't help but raise his eyes and look at Yu Wenhong with a teasing smile. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Xuanqing Hall is not a short distance from Li Jieyu's Ning'an Palace, and Xuanqing Hall belongs to the land of foreign dynasties, how could Li Jieyu pass by here casually, and then so coincidentally drop a hairpin here?
However, there are often concubines who come in and out of here, or drop a hairpin, or drop a handkerchief here, or just fly a kite and the kite flies here to pick it up······ In short, I hope that there is a chance accident that can make them come here, and I hope to meet Yu Wenhong.
Li Jieyu has always been low-key before, she is like a shadowless person in the palace, she thought she was a wise and self-protective character, but she didn't expect to use this old-fashioned method to invite pets.
About every woman in this palace has another side, the one who is arrogant may be really arrogant, but the low-key may not be really low-key.
Yu Wenhong naturally didn't believe Li Jieyu's words when she dropped her hairpin, she frowned and looked at Li Jieyu, and reprimanded her with displeasure on her face: "The harem concubines are not good to stay in the palace here, and what kind of system will they be everywhere." ”
Li Jieyu's face was panicked, and she hurriedly said, "Yes, the concubine will retire." ”
Saying that, he bent his knees at Yu Wenhong and Jiang Yu, then glanced up at Zhu Hong slightly, and hurriedly lowered his head, then bent down and retreated a few steps before turning around and walking quickly with the palace people.
After walking a few steps, Li Jieyu quietly shook her hand, and found that her hands were covered with cold sweat, and she only felt that the scene just now really made her heart beat.
Her palace maid Hongjin couldn't help but ask her: "Jieyu, you came to meet the emperor by chance, why didn't you go forward when you saw the emperor, and you could say two nice words, but you left without saying anything." ”
Li Jieyu said a little perfunctory: "What do you know, didn't you see that the concubine Niangniang was also there?"
Hongjin said: "What if the concubine is here, everyone is a harem concubine, and they are favored by their abilities." If you can make the emperor take a fancy to it, what can the concubine say. Saying that, he sighed, and said with a hateful expression: "Niangniang, you are just too timid, so you dare to bully even the servants in the palace." ”
Li Jieyu frowned and said, "Okay, if you think this palace is useless, don't follow this palace in the future, this palace will send you to other palaces to serve." ”
Hongjin hurriedly said: "Don't, Niangniang was followed by slaves and maids when she was in the palace, who else can you follow if you don't follow, slaves and maids will not talk about it in the future." ”
Li Jieyu didn't speak again, but her face was depressed and calm, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
On the other side, Yu Wenhong asked Wan to send Zhu Hong out of the palace proudly, and he took Jiang Yu to Longlin.
Long Yuan walked in front, Jiang Yu sat on it, turned his head and looked at Yu Wenhong narrowly: "Why is the emperor so strict with Li Jieyu, Li Jieyu just wants to see the emperor." ”
Yu Wenhong's face was expressionless, and his voice was a little cold: "Then do you want me to treat Li Jieyu well? Or I will spoil her tonight?"
Jiang Yu stopped talking, turned his head back, and pretended to admire the flowers and plants on both sides.
After a pause, Yu Wenhong sighed in his heart, and felt that his tone just now was a little harsh, so he softened his voice and asked, "Why don't you ask me where I am going to bury Concubine Jiang?"
Jiang Yu put his hand on his knee, hooked his two index fingers together, and was silent for a while before asking, "Then where does the emperor plan to bury Concubine Jiang's coffin after moving it out of the imperial mausoleum?"
Yu Wenhong didn't answer her words, but said, "It will be a good place, a place that Concubine Jiang will like." ”
Jiang Yu pursed his lips, how did he know what she would like.
Then she stopped talking, and until she returned to Zichen Palace, the two did not speak again.
On the other side, after Zhu Hong returned to his house in the west of the city, he went into the inner courtyard to change his clothes and just came out, when a young man named Lian Qing, who often accompanied him, came over and said to him: "Childe, the people of the Zhu family came today, saying that since Childe has returned to the capital, it is not appropriate to go home, so I came to invite Childe back to his house." ”
Zhu Hong asked, "How did the people of the Zhu family find here?"
After he returned to Gyeonggi, he did not return to the Zhu family, nor did he tell the Zhu family his address.
Lian Qing shook his head and said, "The little one doesn't know, and the little one hasn't told the son to live here." He also said: "The little one told them today that the little one had something to do, and the little one didn't know when the son would come back." But looking at the appearance of those who came to pick up the son, it seems that the son does not return to the Zhu family for a day, and they come every day. ”
Zhu Hong's eyes sank, the place where he lived was not hidden, if the people of the Zhu family wanted to find him, they might not be unable to find him.
Zhu Hong said: "Got it." But he didn't say when he would return to Zhu's house.
Zhu Hong sat at the table and poured himself a cup of tea, and then after the tea was full, the teacup was just held in his hand and not drunk, but his eyes were faintly distracted.
Now he has a large number of industries in his hands, such as the Ruyi Fang in the Great Zhou, the boat shop in Jiangnan Taozhuang, and the horse farm in Zhangye in the northwest, all of which have appeared in the past six or seven years and have rapidly expanded and become famous.
Ruyifang openly operates brothels, tea shops, restaurants, and thin horse businesses, but secretly it is an agency for the emperor to spy on intelligence - men's pastime is just these places, and officials are the same, when they are in a brothel restaurant with a beautiful woman in their arms, it is the easiest time to tell the secrets they know. After the thin horse was trained and sent to the official's house as a concubine, he was another spy.
The two horse farms in Zhangye in the northwest have more than 100,000 good horses imported from the Western Regions, which is to prevent the Cui family or the King of Qi from plotting against each other in the future - the breeding of war horses in the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been in the hands of the Cui family, and in case of a war, it is very unfavorable to the emperor, so the emperor needs such a horse farm in case of emergency.
The shipyard of Jiangnan Taozhuang is purely a money-making business, transporting the porcelain, tea, silk and other things of the Great Zhou Dynasty to Fusang, Siam, Luzon and other countries by sea for sale, and then transporting the spices, jewelry, ivory and so on from these countries back to the Great Zhou for sale, earning silver taels at both ends - Ruyifang needs silver to train spies, and the horse farm in Zhangye in the northwest also needs silver, and these silver cannot be spent from the treasury of the household department, which will arouse the suspicion of the Empress Dowager Cui and the Cui family, so it needs to be supplied with the silver earned by the shipyard.
The horse farm in Zhangye in the northwest is not on the surface, it is all operating in secret.
But Ruyi Fang and Taozhuang Boat Workshop are operating in the open, and these industries belong to the emperor behind them, but on the surface, he Zhu Hong is running them.
But as long as the Zhu family mistakenly thinks that the business of Ruyi Fang and Jiangnan Shipyard is his, it is enough to arouse their covetousness, and it is no wonder that when he returned to Beijing this time, the Zhu family's attitude towards him was much better, and they were anxious to ask him to return to Zhu's house.
Zhu Hong sneered when he thought about it, the Zhu family's ideas have always been clear, and they haven't even hidden.
Zhu Hong's eyes sank, and he drank all the tea in the teacup in his hand, and then his eyes became a little colder.
He really should go back to the Zhu family, so that the Zhu family is always pestering him, which makes him annoyed.